Nancy Drew: The Phantom of Venice

Nancy Drew®: The Phantom of Venice is a first-person perspective, point-and-click adventure game. The player is Nancy Drew and has to solve a mystery. Explore rich environments for clues, interrogate suspects, and solve puzzles and mini-games.

If you are a fan of either Nancy Drew or point and click adventure games, then you'll enjoy this game. There are some interesting and fun puzzles, and trying to solve the mystery is enjoyable as well. There were a few parts that were tedious and downright unenjoyable like a puzzle where you literally match colors for 30 minutes or a card playing minigame where your opponent has unskippable annoying as hell lines where he counts the number of points you each get.

Other than a few points in the game that were just annoying, the game was pretty enjoyable. It's a point and click mystery game; its exactly what you'd expect it to be.

This was the first ND game I played on Steam and the first ND game I've completed. I was a little surprised to realize that I had to learn Italian and German. On the one hand, you get a German dictionary which translates it for you, but it was nice to test out my German lessons. I had been struggling with Italian and worried I wouldn't be able to play as you have to learn the words for things in the game to do a couple of the tasks. It was actually not as difficult as I thought.

The story was an interesting one and the rendered images of Venice Italy are rather pretty. I just couldn't get enough of playing Scopa either. I may have to play this game again just to learn the value system again for the card game to play with friends. As always, the puzzles were a bit of a challenge, some more than others, and others were easier. I suppose it just depends on what sorts of puzzles you're good at and how you think.

There were so many locations on the map though and we don't get to see them as we are pretty much only allowed to go to 5 or 6 locations total. It's a pity, since I would have loved to have seen more of the places on the map. It's a minor nitpick, but it still would have been nice. I also have not played the games in order. I like that not too much information is given about Prudence for those that DO play out of order. However, I do think some of the dynamics were a little complicated. I've learned to click EVERYTHING in this game.

I'd play it again, and for anyone who likes a relaxing puzzle mystery game, this is a nice one. Very few rage moments in this one for me LOL.